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Hack Week is a decentralized program of the best technical events at SF and LA Tech Week, hosted by top companies, labs, universities, and developer communities.

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157

Technical events

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$120K

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140+

Companies hosting

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SFOct 11

SpeedHacks: Official speedrun Hackathon

SFOct 6

Engineering 10x: Astro Teller & Google DeepMind

SFOct 5

Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AI

SFOct 8

Boba & Build Night with Datadog

SFOct 11

Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling Hackathon

SFOct 6

Camp AI: Production-Ready Agents

SFOct 6

Fine Tuning Your (Software) Factory Settings

SFOct 8

AI & Platform Engineering Meetup with Intuit

SFOct 8

AMD × Red Hat: High-Performance Inference at Scale

LAOct 16

Self-Host Frontier AI: Open-Weight Models on AWS

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157 of 157 events

Monday, Oct 5

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01Bria × fal × LTX: What's New in Open-Weights Pipelinessf02Frontier Science AI Hackathonsf03Trader Buildathon & Happy Hoursf04/build-with-AI Buildathonsf05Airwallex Agentic Banking Hackathon Kickoffsf06Model Training Night by Overmind, Daytona & Doublewordsf07Agents in Production: Shared Memorysf08Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AIsf09Telemetry In, Fixes Out: Closing the Agent Reliability Loop (Talk, Demo, Drinks)sf10Agents & APIs Meetup by Baseten, Postman, Rootly AI & Supabasesf11Demo Night at WorkOSsf12The Agent Stack: Lightning Talks + Happy Hour with Exasf13Can your agents actually ship?sf14Infrastructure for the Agentic futuresf15Be honest. You're not really doing evals, are you?sf

Tuesday, Oct 6

28

16Meet the Lab: Mistralsf17Advancing Collaborative AI Drug Discoverysf18The Datology Dripsf19Google for Startups: Engineering 10x with Dr. Astro Teller and Google DeepMindsf20Quantum for San Francisco's Hardest Problemssf21Voice AI in the Wild -- Demos & Lunch with Vonage + Deepgramsf22Fine Tuning Your (Software) Factory Settingssf23DevTools Drink Up 💻🍕🍩🍸🥃 // Depot x Inferencesf24Launch Your Observability Mission with Dynatrace & AWSsf25Google for Startups: From Frontier to Production with DeepMind & Wiz: Building Secure, Scalable AIsf26Hacking AI For Fun and Profitsf27Marathon Mode Hackathon (No Compaction Allowed)sf28Build an AI-Native Company in a Daysf29Apollo Summitsf30Build your Agentic Investment Bank - Hackathonsf31Houston, We Have No Cloud: Build Your AI for the Moonsf32Lessons from Building Retrieval at AWS, Linkedin, & Googlesf33Physical AI Innovation Showcase with SAP and Plug and Playsf34AI Agents Builder Night with PostHog, Convex, Elastic, & Rootly AIsf35Ship an AI Voice Agent Workshopsf36Robotics Happy Hour with LiveKit & Dimensionalsf37Camp AI: Production-Ready Agentssf38Vibe Coding Needs a Merge Gate: AI Agents That Test - #SF TechWeeksf39State of Modelssf40Data Center Toursf41Intelligence in the Open: Recursive Self-Improvementsf42AI Heist Challenge with Cogent x Modal x LangChainsf43Zero to Agent: Build with Primary AIsf

Wednesday, Oct 7

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44Build Better 2026sf45Build Agentic AI with AWS - #Startups @AWSsf46AWS Expert Booth - #Startups@AWSsf47Embodied Intelligence Challengesf48Agentic AI on AWS: From Concepts to Hands-On Lab - #Startups@AWSsf49CTRL Escape Room Hackathonsf50The Musa Labs Hackathonsf51Decentralized Neurosymbolic AI Braindumpsf52Day One Securitysf53Pax Silica Hackathon: The Nordic x Silicon Valley Innovation​sf54Build a Company Brain: AI Agents with Memory, Context and Secure Accesssf55Agent Hackathon: Voice Mode On (Sponsored by Anthropic)sf56Build Mode: HubSpot's Hands-On AI Agent Lab for Real Worksf57The Hardware Layer of AI: Builders, Bits, and Physical Techsf58Solving 'voice' as an interfacesf59Open Source AI Stack: Models, Inference, and Agent Harnesssf60Bay Area Frontier Research Club #26 | Agents in Production: The Data Layer (dinner + paper discussion)sf61Playwright + AI Agents: Workshop - #SF TechWeeksf62SF Hardware & Robotics Showcasesf63Wire a Voice Agent Into a Real Workflowsf64Learning From Human Video & Scaling VLA Trainingsf65can you hear me now - a voice ai "speech" easy eventsf66Worlds in Progresssf67EliseAI x Baseten: Open Source in Production + Arcade Nightsf

Thursday, Oct 8

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68Inception Studio AI Buildathonsf69Multiplayer AI Hackathonsf70AMD x RedHat AI-Infra Workshop: High performance inference, at scalesf71More Worlds to Build: Spatial Intelligence & 3D Demo Daysf72Eat agents, build tapas: a tasty hack with HappyRobot and Calasf73[Workshop] Build AI Agents with Auth0sf742036: A Day at the Office - A Design-Fiction Hackathonsf75AI & Platform Engineering Developer Meetupsf76MCP4GTM with Mastra, Elastic, & Arcadesf77YC Bench Hackathon - Agentic Venture Capitalsf78Tech Meetup @CodeRabbit HQsf79Physical AI: Built for Changesf80Everesteer Hedge Fund Hackathonsf81Agent Memory Night: Durable Agents, Multimodal Memory, and Everything In Betweensf82SkyPilot AI Infra Meetup with H Companysf83Unlock the Full Power of Coding Agents: Software Engineering in the Agent Erasf84Developers After Darksf85Boba & Build Night: Infra, ML, and App Dev in the Observability Agesf86Open Lakehouse & AI Meetup - #SF TechWeeksf87Build an AI workflow editor, natively in Angularsf88Inside the AI factory: one tenant, three layerssf89Night Shift at Mytrasf

Friday, Oct 9

10

90World Models & GPUs Coffeesf91Stanford AI Labsf92Building Self-Improving AI Agents: From Loop to Deploymentsf93Builders & Brews SFsf94Personalizing Long-running Agentssf95Future of Work Hackathon: Building from the Farm @Stanford Universitysf96AI x Medicine: Hackathon + Speaker Nightsf97SF Founders X Product Showcasesf98The AI Said It Was Done - AI Agent Divergence Hackathonsf99Production cloud on autopilot + food/drinkssf

Saturday, Oct 10

15

100Build For Hersf101AI x Pre-Construction Hackathonsf102Talk to Users Hackathonsf103Oasis Multi-Agent Hackathonsf104AI Hackathonsf105Creative Data Hackathonsf106Decision-Grade AI @ Stanford ⚡️ A Buildathon on LLM Trustsf107INTERFACE: Hack the Space Betweensf108Build a BankGPTsf109Meshy × Chrona: Build Multiplayer 3D Worlds With AIsf110Watch AI Turn a Sketch into a Factory Order — Live Demossf111Forward Deployed Engineer: Hear From Experts, Then Try Itsf112The SF Tech Week Robot Contest (Robotics & Physical AI)sf113Backlog to PR- An Evening with Vorfluxsf114Harness in Frontier AI systemssf

Sunday, Oct 11

9

115The AI-Native Talent Hunt with Codexsf116SpeedHacks: The Official speedrun Hackathonsf117The Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling SF Hackathonsf118Multi Model Hackathonsf119Shopping 3.0: the AI Commerce Hackathon with Arcadesf120touch ./GRASS x Building the Future of AI Agentssf121Recursive Self Improvement Hack: Evalssf122B@BHacks 2.0 ($10k in prizes)sf123UC Berkeley Innovation Intelligence Hackathonsf

Monday, Oct 12

5

124Build AI agents that own their inferencesf125Reliable Agents Need Evals: A Scale AI Workshopla126Swift Angels: iOS & Swift developer meetup - @USCla127T4BH HACKATHONla128General Purpose Robot Demos at Yondu Labla

Tuesday, Oct 13

5

129Builders & Brews LAla130Self-Improving Agents Hackathonla131Launch Your Observability Mission with Dynatrace & AWSla132HubSpot & Blackbird Collective's Hands-on AI Agent Lab for Real Workla133LA Agentic AI Meetup hosted by Pinecone: LA Tech Week Editionla

Wednesday, Oct 14

3

134Google Codelabs atla135Quantum: From Research to Real-World Impact ⚛️la136USC ISI Lab Toursla

Thursday, Oct 15

3

137Build AI Agents on AWSla138The City Hacks the State... Beach Edition!!la139Meta-Harness and AI App Day Buildla

Friday, Oct 16

11

140ACM@USC TrojanHacksla141AWS Expert Booth - Startups@AWSla142MOLTEN - build the space around youla143Civic Tech Dayla144Self-Host Frontier AI: Running Open-Weight Models on AWSla145LA Founders X Product Showcasela146The Dual Use Hackathonla147SEP Hacksla148Rocket Launch: A USC Builders Night by TroyLabsla149Hardware Hackathonla150CLAUDE CREATOR SUMMITla

Saturday, Oct 17

6

151touch ./SAND - The Voice Agent OUTDOOR Hackathonla152Tech 4 Goodla153LA Traffic Crisis Hackathon: Build the Futurela154Build a voice agent in 3 minutesla155Build an AI workflow editor, natively in Angularla156Hackathonla

Sunday, Oct 18

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157App Hackathonla

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